Amanda Bailly is an award-winning independent filmmaker based between Beirut & New York City, with extensive experience in human rights and storytelling. She has been living and working in Beirut since 2015, and reporting on the region for a decade, including innovative coverage of the Arab Spring and the war in Syria for Human Rights Watch. She tells compelling stories of everyday heroes, with dignity and empowerment at the forefront of her work. She has reported about LGBTQ+ activists across the Middle East, a sheikh educating Syrian kids in the desert of Jordan, an eight-year-old disability rights activist, and a same sex American couple determined to adopt children despite discriminatory laws.

She is on the Board of Advisors for New York for Syrian Refugees, and an advocate for new Americans.

agbailly @ gmail dot com